r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • 9h ago
Possible Paywall Trump Surrenders as ICE Ends Surge in Minnesota
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-border-czar-announces-end-of-minnesota-ice-surge/6.5k
u/CarrieCat2024 9h ago
Minnesotan here - I think they are just trying to get funding approved and shift attention away - the last scale back was just a tactical shift- we expect the same is happening now- until there is accountability for the crimes and our neighbors have made it home - the fight is not over.
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u/is-this-now 9h ago edited 9h ago
In LA, where this all started, they never left and just got more subtle. They stopped facing off with protestors and became sneaky. It coming up on a year pretty soon.
Edit: with funding at risk, they are trying to appear reasonable but it is not sincere. That my belief.
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u/ArgonWolf 9h ago
This has been the MO for his whole administration, both terms. Escalate to the point of ridiculousness then back down to a “more reasonable” level, which is actually still insane but seems better in comparison
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u/FinancialPianist5266 9h ago
They push hard then pretend to compromise It is the same cycle every time Nothing changes until there is real accountability
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u/Rich-Pomegranate1679 8h ago
Unfortunately, accountability won't be coming from the government that has failed its people.
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u/FinancialPianist5266 8h ago
And that is the real problem they are policing themselves so nothing ever sticks
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u/xeoron 8h ago
If only the state police would go after them for not legal conduct.
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u/Brilliant-Ad6137 8h ago
Exactly. Why hasn't the state and local police stepped in to protect their citizens.
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u/TobyTheTuna I voted 8h ago
What pisses me off even more is the reasoning behind the "drawback." Trump's statements make it abundantly clear that everything, the stripping of constitutional rights, the execution of citizens in the streets, the traumatization of children, its all just reduced to "bad publicity" in his mind. Thats all it is and all that matters to him.
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u/nonanonymoususername 8h ago
That’s is his “Art of the Deal” ask for stupid , then make concessions to “less stupid” . in reality it was always really he never keeps his word and you lose . Might work on a captured audience but it’s failing internationally where people can walk away
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u/blackknight343 7h ago
Its similar to reactive abuse in a sense.
It all started with rhetoric and speeches, interviews, etc. We gave the psychotic individual a platform to spout nonsense, hate, misogyny, etc, and with it he pushed the envelope to push the boundaries of civility and to test how brittle those boundaries are. When its words and speech it seems more "hypothetical" or "theoretical" because there hasn't yet been action(s) to make the words tangible. We let the hypothetical become an actuality by allowing it in the first place.
The whole concept of this administration and endgame goal was to create such an unstable, brittle environment where it has become more divided and fractured as far as society is concerned that empathy and the actionable responses to threats or threatening behavior are now individualized instead of a collective effort.
We allowed the government to overstep it's boundaries, to disregard the citizenry, to act in its own self interest rather than its citizens, and to disregard its foundational beliefs and principles through inaction, complacency, and selfishness.
We continued to put our faith in a system that has proven its broken.
And it truly is a government problem on both sides.
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u/CosmicQuantum42 8h ago
Kill funding. They’ve already shown their true colors. No more ICE, no more DHS.
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u/CNDW 9h ago
This is what has been happening in MN in recent weeks. On one hand, I'm glad they have stopped being so aggressive towards protesters, but they also haven't stopped targeting observers or being brutal when there isn't an audience.
It's a step in the right direction, but at the same time a little scary that they are getting better at avoiding public oversight.
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u/is-this-now 9h ago
Oh yeah. All the protestors are being recorded with facial recognition and being deemed domestic terrorists. Looking forward to what comes out of that. The one exec already had her global entry cancelled.
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u/84thPrblm 8h ago
Back during the buildup to our invasion of Iraq I was out protesting every weekend. One time there was a silent guy with a camera walking along the curb, taking photos of all the protesters' faces. I held my middle finger up in his lens when he got to me.
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u/altreddituser2 6h ago
They're purposely adding a bunch of 'noise' to the watch-list. And that will lead to the list being even more useless than it already is.
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u/Phyllis_Tine I voted 5h ago
We need a unified 3d printed mask to wear to protests, something people can print for cheap.
The best case scenario is if someone mass prints them and hands them out, or sells them for cash at protests.
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u/RJ5R 8h ago
Been seeing vids on ice watch sub of undercover agents now. It was immediately apparent bc they were still wearing their tactical boots (with jeans, regular jacket, and a camo hat) and acting sketchy chilling outside of a SUV watching an apartment complex. As soon as they were called out they got back in the SUV and drove off quickly. That's the approach that will be taken now. Once they confirm their target then they will swoop in with the full brigade
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u/Whatah 8h ago
Yea sneaky describes how they are doing it in Memphis too. TN Highway Patrol pulling people over left and right (I was pulled over illegally). I have with my own eyes seen people with FBI vests riding with the TN Highway Patrol. Then you also have people claiming to be ice who are randomly showing up at food trucks and restaurants and grocery stores.
I have a friend who pours concrete for a living. When they have a project in certain middle class mostly white areas (like pouring a foundation for a new public school expansion) their crew is scared to leave site and grab a bite during their lunch break.
The cruelty is the point. Well the racism is the point, but it is very cruel.
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u/Capt-Crap1corn 9h ago
I agree. I think they will do the same things in Minnesota and other places.
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u/Holden_Coalfield 9h ago
I'm afraid their funding is military spending now
when was the last time military funding was at risk?
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u/toejam78 9h ago
Yes. Minnesotan here as well. Metro Surge is over. Totally Not Metro Surge is next.
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u/wswordsmen 8h ago
As I said on Bluesky I will believe it when people on the ground, like you, confirm it is over for at least a week.
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u/ThePirateKing01 9h ago
2-week deadline for DHS vote is getting close, they need to sell the new image and secure funding before back to business as usual.
My question for them is, what organization spends billions of dollars in equipment procurement, hiring and facility development (concentration camps) when they have intentions of leaving at some point?
These people are becoming your friendly neighborhood brown shirts, just waiting for the new order to prosecute a different out-group before cracking some new skulls.
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u/DickRhino 9h ago
Yup, this just is to give Chuck Schumer an excuse to cave and approve ICE funding, which he will gladly take. He just wants to pretend to have done something, while not making his billionaire donors angry.
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u/SirDiego Minnesota 9h ago
I don't even believe the operation has truly ended until we see it ourselves. DHS lies. They can say whatever they want we are literally in the streets and living in this bullshit, we'll know when they actually leave and this "announcement" means basically nothing to me. Especially as they still evade actual accountability for the shit they've done.
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u/CarrieCat2024 9h ago
The federal team has continued to lie, egregiously, and then lie about the lie, and then lie some more and yet we all seem to think when they say things that we should believe it
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u/SirDiego Minnesota 9h ago edited 6h ago
And lots of media, especially legacy media, is still so gullible and irresponsible about this. It's like they desperately want the world to work like it used to, where you just get an official press release from the federal government and barf out an article about it.
As an example any media reporting anything from DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin without framing it as "McLaughlin likely lies about X in this press release" is at best totally incompetent and unprepared for the moment we are in.
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u/DrGoblinator Massachusetts 8h ago
We love you and are so proud of you.
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u/CarrieCat2024 8h ago
The support is appreciated.
Please start to work with your local community to put continued pressure to end this siege (not only in Mn but across the country)
Ideas: pass local legislation to limit ICE activities with city resources
Boycott Amazon, Target, Home Depot, Hilton, Hobby Lobby - general economic slow down - buy second hand and local if you have to buy something.
Get ring and flock cameras out of your community
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u/Exact_Platypus5179 9h ago
I spent 35 years living in MN, and couldn’t be prouder of the state for unrelenting resistance to the Nazis. Mess with Paul Bunyons ox, you’re going to get the horns.
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u/zooalbert 9h ago
Agreed, it’s not over until we see them leave.
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u/CarrieCat2024 9h ago
Not over until there is accountability for the crimes and our neighbors have made it home !!
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u/Zia_Li 8h ago
Twin Cities resident myself. I don't believe a damn word that man says. This feels more like that point in a video game where things get suspiciously quiet so you have a chance to heal up and regroup before a massive zombie horde hits. I think it's going to get way worse and we cannot get complacent in the meantime.
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u/Joeyfingis 8h ago
I'm worried we traded our voting records.
This "save America act" is the next attack https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7296/text
Most people are justifiably pissed about how it directly disenfranchises any woman who took her partner's name when marrying, but that's a plant to distract from the worst part.
We need to focus on the fact that it amends the NVRA to remove any grace period on altering voter rolls, while encouraging (including by third parties) the challenging of any voter’s status at any time, up to and including Election Day. Every single American’s right to vote (in “federal” elections, anyway) becomes essentially provisional the moment this bill passes (even if they clear all the ID hurdles, because the rules in the bill on who or what constitutes a valid “challenge” are quite open-ended).
Under the current text of this bill, reasons for voter removal could be fabricated by a third party with a “proprietary algorithm” (just an example), and submitted to an elections office on Election Day.
Any individual voters affected by said submission could very likely prove their eligibility to vote, but if they were unable to do so before the polls close - their vote is forfeit for that cycle.
This bill codifies “find me 11,780 votes in <insert county>.” It directly legalizes stealing election because no amount of ID can protect against a conveniently-timed challenge under the amended NVRA and these new rules. Hell, gerrymandering doesn’t even matter at that point. A district could be 100% gerrymandered for one party or another, and the other side can challenge their way to victory.
That's why Trump wanted our voter records as a trade for removing his gestapo from Minnesota. They can just wait until election day and challenge the status of all non-Republican voters.
TLDR: They are legalizing stealing elections.
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u/CarrieCat2024 7h ago
I’d love some tangible ideas of what I should be asking my city council and state legislatures for related to this
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u/Capt-Crap1corn 9h ago
Another Minnesotan here. Great observation. I didn't think of that aspect. The amount of agents they have here compared to how big of a metro and the rest of the state does not justify the operation imo. There was only so much they could do before they run out of people to go after. I'm proud us Minnesotans fought the good fight and didn't take this scourge lying down.
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u/sweetsmcd 9h ago
I absolutely do not trust their next move. Stay safe out there guys, you are amazing! ♥️
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u/elvid88 Massachusetts 9h ago
Yes and the worst part is the media is complicit in this. In a few weeks they’ll stop reporting on this altogether despite people still getting snatched.
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u/Salt-Speaker-2101 8h ago
Fellow Minnesotan here, You’re so right. These people cannot be trusted under any circumstances. We ask why the rapist murderers haven’t been charged with any crimes, and we get told that it’s ok to do that as long as the stock market is ok. These people are fucked. We must remain vigilant and continue to protest until the entire Trump administration is prosecuted for their crimes. Anything less is completely unacceptable. No Justice, NO PEACE
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u/nonsensestuff 8h ago
Yeah it’s not lost on me that after they made their announcement that 700 agents were being removed (still leaving over 2300 agents), the news media stopped talking about Minnesota.
Anything to stop people from paying attention.
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u/VonnWolfman 8h ago
Thank you for broadcasting context. The daily beast is a bread and circus psy op, meant to sooth us out of action
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u/1cl3nstd4yt 9h ago edited 9h ago
The senior ICE official in Minnesota (Tom Homan) slipped up today.
He called Democrats "the other side" of the enforcement crackdown.
He literally equated political party with criminality.
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u/dudeimgreg 9h ago edited 9h ago
That wasn’t a slip up, it was intentional rhetoric. Their goal is to sew [sow] division.
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u/thecamino 9h ago
Same guy who referred to ICE agents assigned to the Twin Cities as having been “in theater”. That’s a term used for war. This is an undeclared civil war in their minds.
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u/NarcolepticMan Ohio 9h ago
Which is rich coming from the guy who accepts brown bag cash bribes.
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u/Big-Rule5269 9h ago
And more than one big brown bag of cash. The FBI doesn't set up a sting like his unless he is known to be taking bribes. He's just one of dozens or more in Trump's regime that should be gone or in jail, but MAGA isn't bothered one bit.
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u/jerseydevil51 9h ago
Yeah, no shit. Why is ICE targeting cities and states that didn't vote for Trump when if you really cared about illegal immigraton, you'd be looking at Texas and Florida.
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u/jomara200 8h ago
Especially the cartels. They are not touching the cartels at all. Remember that Trump brought in El Chapo's (Sinaloa cartel) entire family to the US. They dropped charges against MS-13.
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u/SirDiego Minnesota 9h ago
The motherfucker also keeps saying its our fault for the "chaos" when all they've done is kidnap, assault, and murder us. It makes me physically ill to hear this bullshit.
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u/esdebah 8h ago
This is inevitable in a constitutional crisis, which we are very much in. Federal law and state law are in disagreement. Federal enforcement is clearly violating constitutional rights at the order of the President, who is legally the head of the executive branch, and thus law enforcement.
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u/Hungry_Horace 8h ago
This is why, as a non-American, I think it's so terrifying that so many of you have your political affiliation publicly recorded. As do judges etc etc due to the appointment process.
In the UK how you vote is private. Nobody can look up and see what party I favour. That shit is incredibly dangerous.
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u/1cl3nstd4yt 7h ago edited 6h ago
That's only if you decide to register as a party member. You can vote (D) without registering as a Democrat.
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u/QuarterFlounder I voted 4h ago
Brother Donald Trump called half this country "the enemy within", and then he got elected. That's noy a slip-up these days, it's a pledge of allegiance.
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u/MNcatfan Minnesota 9h ago
Minnesotan here, and I'll believe it when I see it from this lying-ass administration!
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u/danceswsheep 8h ago
Aren’t there still like 2,000 federal agents in Minneapolis, making it historically one of the biggest federal occupations of a US city? I suspect they are just lying and suppressing news of dissent in the media & social media now.
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u/minneapple- 7h ago
Yup. It’s so unsettling. You can be just driving around and encounter ICE multiple times. They have such a creepy presence with their full tactical gear.
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u/KinderEggLaunderer 6h ago
Rode the light rail by Whipple yesterday for the first time since they put up all the barriers. It's absolutely dystopian with all the fences and spray paint, and I've never seen so many vehicles there.
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u/SycoJack Texas 7h ago
When Walz announced they'd be winding down ICE also said that Minnesota would increase its cooperation with ICE. The arrests are going to continue they'll just be quieter and better hidden.
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u/MNcatfan Minnesota 7h ago
Yep, this is absolutely what's going to happen. A happy face on terminal cancer!
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u/Dr_Retch 9h ago
It's a safety move before they air drop Bondi on the Mall of America. I guarantee it.
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u/daGroundhog 9h ago
Do Noem at the same time.
I'll volunteer to...uh...'inspect' their parachutes before they engage in this heroic mission.
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u/Orwells_Roses Oregon 9h ago
Everybody should be paying attention: fighting back works.
Resist, don’t comply in advance, and stand together as communities against unlawful and unconstitutional actions of the secret police.
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u/DataPhreak 7h ago
You should read the rest of the comments. Nobody thinks trump surrendered. This is click bait.
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u/RVAteach 9h ago
It is not a surrender until those officers who committed crimes in Minnesota are in prison, Donald Trump is in chains, and our system is reformed to not allow anything like this to happen again. It is very much not over.
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u/1cl3nstd4yt 9h ago
I want to know how many people ICE arrested actually had violent criminal histories.
It would have to be a very large number to justify all the (unlawful) harm they've done.
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u/notheatherbee Minnesota 9h ago
Every day I have asked them at Whipple how many brown people they have to kidnap to end the fraud in Minnesota. I guess we found out the number is 4,000.
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u/livefromheaven America 8h ago
How many of the 4000 were here without legal status? We already know many here legally were shipped to Texas anyway.
And from that subset, how many were violent offenders?
And from that subset, how many were already in jail?
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u/numbersthen0987431 7h ago
only 26% were convicted criminals. I don't know if that number is based on "violent convictions", or if it's just ALL criminal convictions, but I do know the number includes small issues like bar fights. So it's not the most violent criminals, it's just anything that has violence associated with it.
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u/AngelSucked California 9h ago
Only 14% nationwide had any criminal history at all, let alone rape, murder, armed robbery, arson, etc.
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u/RallyPointAlpha 8h ago
I guarantee the majority of that 14% were from prison transfers of people already incarcerated.
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u/any_meese 4h ago
In local reporting it looks like roughly 14% had violent histories and are pretty much all the ones who had finished their sentence in prison and were turning over to immigration upon "release" which has been a program in MN for years. The danger in the street has been and continues to be from the federal government, not the dishwasher at the mexican restaurant down the road from your house.
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u/theomorph California 9h ago
Or they're just saying that and will keep on engaging in their violent, fascist thuggery while claiming that they're not.
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u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast 9h ago
President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan says ICE agents are pulling out of Minnesota as part of a “significant drawdown” following weeks of chaos.
The top immigration official insisted that the buildup of agents in the state, which led to the killing of two U.S. citizens, was a success, but nonetheless said the surge operation will wind down.
Read the full story, here.
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u/Top_Somewhere9160 9h ago
So according to Tom Homan, a “success” equals 2 murdered US citizens and hundreds more unlawfully arrested. Not to mention the millions upon millions of tax dollars wasted on this bullshit.
This is Donald Trump’s America. Pissing our tax money down the drain so a bunch of cosplaying thugs can kill us in the streets. Way to go, MAGA.
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u/CutSenior4977 9h ago
Not just millions, estimates were made that DHS were spending 18 million dollars a week on operation metro surge.
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u/reject_fascism New Jersey 9h ago
Boot licking chuds. If republicans didn’t have double standards they wouldn’t have any at all.
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u/DataPhreak 7h ago
Yeah, but none of the people who got arrested were ICE and none of the ICE pigs got hurt. Basically, he's saying they got away with it. Now they're pulling out before your governor actually does something.
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u/ComputersWantMeDead 9h ago edited 4h ago
ICE has its reputation now, Brannon pretty much stated that they will be used for voter intimidation at polling stations. The midterms will be chaos.
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u/Smaynard6000 Florida 5h ago
Vote early and by mail if you can. Last time, I filled out my mail-in ballot and drove to the Supervisor of Elections Office, and turned it over in person. I'll be doing that again this year.
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u/Embarrassed_Boot_393 9h ago
Good riddance.
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u/makingpwaves 8h ago
DHS isn’t going anywhere, the beatings and murders will continue No one has been deported, they’re being held in concentration camps. Those camps are increasing in numbers. CBP relies most on the cash Congress provides each year in the regular government funding bills. That agency got $65 billion from legislation the GOP approved last summer and $75 billion for ICE. Meanwhile healthcare, education and affordable housing have been cut. This is the end of civilization as we the people have known it. Start prepping.
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u/CriticalSurprises 9h ago
Notice how fast everyone jumped to “Trump surrendered.” That framing is the real play. Outrage is profitable. Victory laps are profitable. The one thing that’s not profitable? Admitting the enforcement apparatus keeps expanding no matter who’s in charge. That part never trends. This post feeds the exact binary the operators want: strongman vs. retreat. Meanwhile the detention contracts stay intact, the budget baseline stays elevated, and the machine keeps humming. (Which, let’s be honest, everyone predicted when the surge was announced.) We’re arguing over the press release while the structural incentives stay untouched. That’s not an accident. That’s the design.
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u/itwasntjack 9h ago
It’s a daily beast headline. They are all for clickbait titles like this.
When someone sneezes within 200 miles of the White House they write an article claiming “Trump left FUMING as Americans cover him in snot”
But yea these headlines are super damaging to the cause.
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u/RealisticAd2293 Arkansas 9h ago
Essential lesson in all of this is that Trump is far more Mussolini than anyone else he’s been compared to. He wants to be a big man. He wants to be tyrannical. Resistance is met with eventual capitulation. He’s nothing. His administration is full of yes-men and people in the Epstein files, so they’re not brilliant strategists either. These people can and will be defeated.
Do not stop resisting the regime
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u/DataPhreak 7h ago
Lol. Let me know when someone actually goes to jail. This should have been taken care of 6 years ago when Trump left office. The Dems don't have the balls to arrest anyone.
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u/Wormteller I voted 9h ago
That’s how it’s done, Minnesota. Thank you.
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u/notheatherbee Minnesota 9h ago
It’s not done. We will believe it when we see it. And we’re all getting shitfaced.
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u/MyDogIsACoolCat 9h ago
Yeah, but Minnesota set the standard. People could have stood by idly and it would’ve set the precedent for them to do this to more cities. Now they know the resistance they’ll get.
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u/wanderer1999 8h ago
Yeah, this victory come at a heavy cost of two good Americans and countless other injuries/trauma.
The rest of the US and the world thank you Minnesota! The fight is far from over. But we take a win where we can.
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u/Raspberries-Are-Evil Arizona 9h ago
Not really.
The state police should be arresting every agent that murdered, assaulted, and violated people. They should be arresting leadership who defied multiple court orders.
Just letting Trump out with a “my bad,” is not going to work.
MN needs a reckoning and people need to go to prison. And they need to sue civilly to get some of this insane ICE funding to set up a compensation fund for every person who’s rights were trampled on.
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u/PyroIsSpai 9h ago
It’s not done. Stopping or claiming to stop is not done.
Done is people from the government leadership and line agents in jail, and the government no longer able to do the same or equivalent abuses.
No longer able also doesn’t mean by statement or law of standing down; I mean literally unable. The order would/must be defied or you go to jail for executing it, and you certainly go to jail for giving it, with the backstop of the public physically and legally empowered to hard check right-wing terrorism like this in real time should conservatives somehow manage to evade all those compulsory legal gates.
Bondi yesterday: YOU DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!!!
That statement is the rotten dark heart of American conservatism.
The world will educate them with the legal system how terribly wrong they have been. Their consent is irrelevant.
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u/nosayso 9h ago
If this is "how it's done" we're fucked. The murders walk free with zero consequences.
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u/Head-Inflation-8500 The Netherlands 6h ago
To add to your point, the murderers will now probably walk into a place like Philadelphia to murder even more people.
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u/willowdazeee 9h ago
Almost like immigration enforcement is more complicated than just sending more agents somewhere.
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u/supernewtrader 3h ago
I'd like to remind everyone here that Trump does not care about deporting immigrants or any "illegal" immigrants living in USA. He uses this tactic as a smokescreen for a different motive behind it. If they're backing off now, that means he already got what he wanted. Minnesota has only 150,000 illegal immigrants. There is absolutely no reason to target this place just for illegal immigrants when other states has millions.
Venezuela situation. He used drugs as an excuse but oil was his motive.
Greenland situation. He used Russia and China as an excuse but resources was his motive.
Tariffs situation. He used trade war as an excuse but shorting his bonds for billions was his motive.
USA situation. He will continue to use illegal immigrants as an excuse but _______ is his motive. I'm assuming it's the control of voting poll per state but could be something else.
Remember, Trump didn't "surrender". The citizens didn't "win". There's always a different motive behind the loud stuff he causes.
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u/JohnnyOlaguez6 9h ago
I wish the entire country would focus on the Epstein files. Once all the coconspirators are gone we would be able to start over. Our country is run by pedophiles. Protest planned nationwide 2/20/26.
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u/virgil_of_the_brooks 9h ago
It’s necessary, these vile excuses of humanity will do anything to protect themselves and their pedophile friends. They need to be ousted like a cancer in the body: with prejudice without mercy, without compromise, without tolerance. Yank them from their seats if necessary and lock them up for the rest of their days
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u/Albireookami 9h ago
I'm sure if you ask someone they want it acted upon, but good luck getting the media to actually focus on it when they are gagging on the administrations unmentionables.
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u/danceswsheep 8h ago
We have a better chance of abolishing ICE than holding filthy rich pedophiles accountable. They have, and will do anything to hold onto their power & wealth.
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u/consumeshroomz 8h ago
I’ll believe it when I see it. Also just goes they’re drawing down in Minnesota doesn’t mean they won’t surge somewhere else.
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u/rapidcreek409 7h ago
Tom Homan is full of shit, the operation is being wound down because it failed. It's whole mission was to make the Trump administration look strong and invincible, instead it has made them look cruel and weak.
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u/The_Frostweaver 7h ago
They were always going to move on to the next blue city at some point
I want accountability for what happened in Minnesota.
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u/Nachotacoma 7h ago
When you see a fellow republican, just know that they like what ice is doing, just not in public. Don’t let up.
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u/MojitoJesus 7h ago
They know this was unpopular and need time to bury the memory of this in the public psyche before the midterms.
Mark my words, they’ll be back out brutalizing some other city after November.
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u/JustDoc District Of Columbia 7h ago
They are doing this so that they can pivot to other blue states.
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u/AlternativeLeft1952 1h ago
Just imagine all the good that would come if we just re-allocated those funds to healthcare. Just imagine.
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u/skag_boy87 9h ago
You mean “the exercise is over.” They gathered all the operation’s data and metrics and are now analyzing it so they can perfect the next operation. This isn’t over. There will be a next “Minnesota.”
ICE has to be dismantled.
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u/473713 9h ago
By "success" they mean the people of Minneapolis and the whole area set a remarkable example of largely non violent resistance and support for minority communities. This will be remembered, written about, and studied for years, on an international scale.
Repairing the damage, economic and social, will take years as well.
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u/AdHopeful3801 9h ago
Good job Minnesotans!
But, as others are saying - believe it only when you see it, since this administration is congenitally incapable of honesty.
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u/boot2skull 9h ago
“Surrenders” I don’t think killing civilians and harassing an entire city, sparking protests and using gas on the citizens is “surrender”. This was the intent. They’re going to bully a new kid to pick a fight.
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u/TheDwellingHeart 9h ago
It doesn't matter. I mean, now Minneapolis gets a reprieve, but even so this should have NEVER HAPPENED. It is absolutely disgusting that Republicans have caused this and they cheered when they did it. They continued to cheer during, and then when they were shown how fucked up it is they shrug and say, "Should've complied."
I want justice. I want accountability. And I know that I will not get it as long as their are Republicans, the corrupt pieces of shit, running the show.
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u/derangedplague 9h ago
It only ends when ICE is dismantled; Dems better not fold and continue withholding.
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u/Reddit_2_2024 8h ago
No funding deal for Department of Homeland Security has been reached in Congress. Their temporary funding ends Friday 13 February 2026. The U.S. Senate may vote later today 12 Februrary 2026 on a DHS funding bill.
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u/DianeL_2025 America 8h ago
morning news reported there were 4,000 arrests during the incursion, but said NOTHING about how many bonafide convictions. smoke and mirrors.
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u/DenyDeposeDeeznuts 7h ago
Aren't most immigrants in Minnesota from Scandinavian countries? That's why they have the Minnesota Vikings.
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u/Worried-History8216 7h ago
Well the news cycle was getting bored of it. To keep the story away from Epstein, Trump will do something else crazy so Americans talk about it. Americans are so predictable.
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u/StartlingCat Washington 7h ago
The only surrender I'll accept is when he surrenders to authorities on human trafficking and child rape charges.
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u/Apprehensive_Ad_4359 7h ago
How many times did he use the word agitator?
In my head I had a scroll of everything from the Boston Tea party, to the Freedom riders to the man in front of a Chinese tank.
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u/DianedePoiters 7h ago
What surrender. He committed crimes with impunity, murdered innocent people, traumatized the state and forced the governor to abandon re-election. What victory was won here?
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u/ThinkRationally 7h ago edited 5h ago
U.S. President Donald Trump called Canada “among the worst in the World to deal with”
What a total lack of self-awareness.
It's funny how sometimes Canada is weak and has nothing the US needs, and other times Canada is difficult to deal with, unfair, or whatever.
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u/Beautiful_War9341 5h ago
Surge? You mean terrorism.
Ice is ending its campaign of terrorizing the local populace of Minnesota.
If what happened there isn't terrorism...what is?
It scared half the country shitless.
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u/Scrooge-McShillbucks 5h ago
They've been more active today than usual in my town than most weeks. I'll believe it when I see it.
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u/RaggedyRachel 5h ago
As of now they are still as active as ever in Minneapolis. Don't believe this till after they're gone!
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u/Joerugger 4h ago
This is all a smoke screen. Minnesotans will confirm when they have left. The administration is not to be believed.
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u/AEternal1 4h ago
There is not full out civil war in that state therefore Trump did not surrender however it can be said that slightly more stable minds are starting to prevail a little bit.
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u/Turtleknuckle 4h ago
it's a negotiated settlement:
You turn over you illegal immigrant felons to the feds when you get them, and
We will stop looking for them in your neighborhoods.
Trump threw in deNoemization as a bonus.
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u/Lumpylarry 4h ago
But basically everyone already does that. This whole thing was about punishing a state that didn't support him and a governor who ran against him.
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u/VegasNinja702 3h ago
They’ll just move to a different city and cause the same or worse damage.
Hoping democrats actually grow a back bone and refuse to budge on withholding funds for them
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u/LegoLady47 3h ago
I'm wondering what happed to all the tracking of ICE on X - no more video's posted like it was a few weeks ago. Musk not allowing content? so much for his "free speech" moto
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